“When all of these economic sectors went down at the same time, it had a huge effect,” said Austin, who led a study of the oil spill’s effects on the region from 2010 to 2012. “Those communities most disadvantaged were the ones who weren’t able to get help.” For example, Austin’s study of thousands of individuals living along the Gulf found, people in poorer communities who qualified for compensation for oil spill damages didn’t apply for it because they didn’t have required documentation and they couldn’t afford assistance. The testimony was the second in the first day of the so-called penalty phase in BP’s oil spill trial. U.S. prosecutors and attorneys for BP were both making their case to U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier about how much BP should pay for its role in the spill. fuelfix/blog/2015/01/20/oil-spill-intensified-gulf-inequality-amid-economic-damage-u-s-witness-says/
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